ESPN’s reported figure surpasses NBC Sports’ 2.1 million unique users for the USA-Canada men’s hockey semifinal during the 2014 Winter Olympics earlier this year, which would make the USA-Germany World Cup match the most-streamed sports event in the U.S. to date. WatchESPN requires users to log in to verify their pay-TV subscription, as did the NBC Olympics digital service.

Univision Communications, which holds the Spanish-language World Cup broadcast rights in the U.S., reported a record 1.7 million unique viewers for its Internet stream of the USA-Germany content, with a peak of 750,000 concurrent live viewers, on its unauthenticated service.

In addition, Akamai Technologies, a major content-delivery network provider, said the Thursday soccer action marked a company record for live-streaming video. The USA-Germany and Ghana-Portugal matches combined to peak at 6.8 terabits per second of bandwidth consumed worldwide, the company said. The previous high-water mark was the June 17 match between Mexico and Brazil at 4.59 Tbps.

Univision Digital registered 86 million minutes streamed for 605,000 viewers during an average minute for USA-Germany.

To date for the World Cup, the WatchESPN service is averaging 737,000 unique viewers and 31.1 million total minutes per match, according to the programmer. Through the first 48 matches, unique viewers are up 149% and total viewing minutes are up 143% versus 2010.

Play the first World Series game at 1:30pm. See what the daytime on line numbers look like. I remember my teacher playing the World Series on the radio during class, the Olympics too she brought in a TV.